Your AI and data partner for strategy, implementation, and infrastructure

Strategic Assessment

A fixed-price engagement that maps your business, systems and stakeholders and sizes the work. Ask us whether it fits.

• Design Thinking Workshops
• Stakeholder Interviews
• Idea Assessment and Risk Check
• The Validation Blueprint Report
• The Strategic Tech Roadmap
• Future Investment Recommendations and Estimates

Proof

• Brand business case A dashboard request revealed the real problem, and discovery produced a C-suite strategy framework plus automated dashboards for a publicly traded global B2B SaaS company.
• Sales forecasting and ML readiness An assessment and roadmap that recommended waiting, because there was not enough historical data.

“Working with [Acorn] was always just a refreshing, joyous part of the week. I think it's very hard to find a consulting partner who can deeply listen and really understand your context, but then also quickly turn that into some kind of conceptual direction and really showing that understanding. [The team] did exactly that and think they would be a great partner for really anyone that's in this space...”

Fractional CTO

When the technology leadership you need does not exist in-house yet, we act as your fractional head of cloud, AI and machine learning, from strategy to build to infrastructure. One accountable lead runs the engagement and brings in data scientists, engineers and delivery leads as the work needs them.

Prototyping and rapid builds

Acorn creates wireframes, prototypes and mockups of possible solutions so ideas are tested before heavy investment. We then scale the work into production-ready solutions.

Proof

• Staggered Sprints For the Win For a light finishing trades construction products and services provider: a staggered rollout of team members that got a 1.0 delivered, with more delivered after that.
• Product testing platform A testing platform built quickly after key team members left before launch.

“I'm so impressed with how well they listen. They listen first. They understand your problems, they understand what you're working towards, which saves a ton of time and a ton of expectation alignment towards the back end. And then I think that outside of that, once he's able to understand your problems, he's able to put together really good teams that can execute your vision faster than most other people you meet.”

Data, dashboards and predictive models

Dashboards, scorecards and shared metric baselines that give a team one version of the numbers, and predictive models built on the data you have.

Proof

• Cloud migration Dashboards, a migration scorecard and shared metric baselines for a publicly traded global B2B SaaS company.
• Churn model A model that correctly identified a customer who will churn 85-90% of the time.
• Brand business case Automated dashboards alongside a C-suite strategy framework.
• Sales forecasting and ML readiness Also the ML Readiness module below.

Custom systems and integration

Systems built to fit how your team works, including testing platforms, data migrations, and API layers that connect your systems.

Proof

• Product testing platform A testing platform and automated error troubleshooting through a mobile app for a consumer healthtech and CPG company (B2C).
• LMS migration User and course data migration, an API layer with per-client access control and usage reporting, and custom LMS endpoints for a non-profit focused on child safety that also operates in legal tech and education.

“Working with Mike and Acorn and the team has been fantastic that they really took the time to understand our business requirements. ... having that opportunity to work with Mike and the team to develop and go through that discovery process around designing a new technology platform, you know, which is fantastic for us that is scalable and flexible ...”

Data, ML and cloud operations

DataOps and data engineering, DevOps, MLOps, and cloud infrastructure, run as one practice. We deploy into production, operationalize the work, transfer competency to your team, and then move into maintenance mode.

Delivery rescue and project recovery

When a project is stalled, behind, or short a team, we step in with the delivery practices that get it moving again. These three video walkthroughs each cover one engagement.

Proof

• Staggered Sprints For the Win For a light finishing trades construction products and services provider: a staggered rollout of team members that got a 1.0 delivered, with more delivered after that.
• Course Correcting with Burn Up Charts For a consumer healthtech and IoT company: a stalled team that was not covering its costs exceeded break-even, and the client had a successful conference.
• Creating a Better Forecast with QA and Burndown Charts For a construction trades company: a key stakeholder's frustrations about repeated missed deadlines solved with a chart and good QA practices.